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Death Penalty /
Capital Punishment |
Databases for Finding Articles
Catalog for Finding Books
Links to Selected Web Sites
Article Databases:
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Database of viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, and magazine, journal and newspaper articles on social issues.
- Click on “Capital punishment” from the list of social issues on the right or search for a specific topic not on the list.
- After clicking on a social issue or doing a search, you will see links to "Viewpoint essays" on that issue. Additional documents on the issue-- including Reference articles, Statistics, Magazine, Journal and News articles, Primary Sources & more-- are available by clicking on the appropriate tabs at the top of the page.
- For more specific searches, use the Advanced Search mode to combine concepts (click on Advanced on the blue task bar at top).
For example, to search for how victims’ families are affected by capital punishment, in the Advanced search mode,
-- In the first search box, enter: capital punishment
-- in the second search box, enter: victims’ famil* OR victims’ rights OR vindicat* OR retribution
Gale PowerSearch database on campus or off-campus w/ library card
Articles from popular magazines academic journals, newspapers and reference books; excellent set of general periodical databases.
The PLS Online Catalog is the online catalog to find books in Skyline Library and in all libraries in the Peninsula Library System.
Links
to Recommended Web Sites:
The
Death Penalty Curriculum
This site includes pro and con viewpoints, stages of a capital case,
history, and how each method of execution is carried out. Interactive
Death Penalty Information Center
Facts about the death penalty, including executions by year, by state, by
method used; botched executions; list of individuals executed (1976-1998).
Full-text reports on a variety of topics relating to capital punishment,
including race and the death penalty, politicizing the death penalty, crisis in
death penalty representation, law enforcement views, innocence and the death
penalty, and cost of capital punishment.) Most information on the site is
against the death penalty.
Death Penalty News
Includes
information on current executions in the United States, death penalty related
news, statistics on executions by state, statistical summaries, and more. The
site is against the death penalty and provides information on contacting
Amnesty International's Death Penalty Abolition Page
Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty (PADP) works
toward the abolition of the death penalty worldwide. The site is against the
death penalty
Cornell Death Penalty Project
Information on court decisions and results of relevant studies (from
Punishment and the Death Penalty: Ethics Updates
Legislative information, statistics, and links to other sites (from
Pro-death Penalty.com
Site providing information and links explicitly in favor of the death
penalty.
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last revised: 4-21-10 |